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@nic_carter Some people are still like “imagine how great the country could be if we took all that defence spending and put it towards fraud instead”

it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI is already here. basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc bonus package: literally getting paid for staying at home and hanging out with your relatives extra bonus: if you are willing to commit fraud, pretend your kids are autistic and get paid for that. get paid for watching your neighbor's kid. pretend you are taking care of your grandma. fake hospice clinic. fake rehab clinic. fake therapy clinic. giga bonus: during a time of crisis take advantage of PPP or CARES and open a fake business and get paid for existing people are shocked when they learn that defense is the FIFTH largest line item in the budget. ahead of defense: social security ($1.6T), interest on debt ($1.1T) medicare ($1T), medicaid + ACA ($1T), AND THEN defense ($0.9T) complain about defense all you like, but healthcare fraud is a way bigger factor. hundreds of billions per year. this is only going to get worse, because the fraud is a structural part of the system – payouts to client groups in exchange for votes (normally D). in the US, only 47% of the population actually works (fully 14% of the population is working age and does not work). retirees are 18% and children 22%. the system I described above subsidizes 50m non-working people absolute minimum, but really it's far more because people that are paid to stay home and take care of their relatives are considered "workers" of that 47% of "actual workers" maybe one third does real work, the rest are shuffling papers around or doing fake email jobs. so you have, rough math, 50 million actual workers supporting 300 million dependents. that's the nature of the economy today. it will only accelerate. eventually you will have 10 million using AI tools to do all the work and 340 million dependents. the reason no one roots out the fraud is because it's the system that keeps our extremely fragile polity intact. the fraud is the UBI. the purpose of the system is what it does. of course, it's a deeply unfair system, because you are allowed to commit fraud if you are a politically protected client group of the democrats. DOGE was killed faster than any government program ever, because it attempted to root out the fraud. if you are honest and unwilling to commit fraud, you are a huge loser in this system. your neighbor will have their mortgage subsidized by some government program. they will get favorable SBA loans due to DEI. they will open a fake hospice or autism clinic. they will get paid for taking care of their neighbor's kid and vice versa. the primary skill in the labor market is learning how to extract money from state and federal government programs, not gaining skills or making yourself employable. if you are just trying to work an ordinary wagie job you are a huge sucker. you are paying 40-50% effective all in taxes to everyone else who is a net taker. the sad part is because AI is such a substantial productivity boost, it will actually keep this system going for a while longer, and maybe in perpetuity. AI boosts the 15% of the population that is actually productive so much that the remaining 85% can coast by. no one in charge will change this because they can't think of anything else. the political costs of a real UBI program are too great and we don't have the money for it anyway. so we will keep this covert fraud-based UBI program running indefinitely. unfortunately, if you are an honest wagie, you lose.

Andrew Yang reveals he felt like a failure his entire 20s and didn't make it until he was 34 "I started a company that flopped, then another company didn't work out, I still owed six figures in law school loans, and my parents would literally lie about what I did professionally. I felt very insecure and like a failure for years. I didn't become a success until I was 34 and didn't really hit my stride until 30. If someone found me at 29 they'd be like I don't know where this is going. Then you find me at 34 and it's like oh, it's fine."

The reason software eats RAM is the same reason factories used to dump chemicals in rivers. The cost is externalized. Every mass of inference compute shows up on an engineering manager's AWS bill, broken down to the cent, reviewed quarterly. Every mass of RAM consumed on YOUR machine shows up nowhere in anyone's budget. Chrome could cut memory usage by 60% tomorrow and Google's revenue wouldn't move a single basis point. Docker's 2GB idle footprint costs Docker Inc. exactly $0. Electron's 500MB todo list costs the Electron team exactly $0. The user paid for the RAM. The user pays the electricity. The user deals with the fan noise. The company ships faster because they chose the laziest possible runtime. The token-optimization obsession makes this even clearer. Companies optimize inference cost because inference cost hits their margins. They'll spend six months shaving 200ms off a model response. They won't spend six days reducing a desktop client's memory footprint because that memory belongs to someone else's hardware. This is why the 16GB vs 32GB debate is a trap. You're asking consumers to buy more expensive hardware to subsidize the software industry's refusal to optimize for a resource they never have to pay for. The market will never fix this on its own. The people writing the checks and the people running out of RAM are on opposite sides of the transaction.

Don’t ever limit yourself... you can learn anything.

Basically makes you gay and retarded like we've been saying for years

AM TOO EXCITE I CAMT WAHOOOOOOOOO

we literally created one of the most original and powerful experiences ever seen in the space and it feels unreal. this week is going to be a movie for everyone, wether you heard of @hoshino55555 before or not. TOMORROW 4PM EST. TUNE. YOUR ASS. IN. hoshino !!!!

One of the most exciting launches in the past 2 years 🤩 I’ve wanted this concept onchain for soooooo long and I think they’re going to crush it with @hoshino55555

today is literally the greatest day of all time

@Mememarkets1 Incredible how supposedly smart people expose themselves as total frauds by assuming that lines of code is a quality metric. 600k LOC in 2 months should terrify anyone competent, and there is nothing he can show for it besides a claude repo. What a joke.

I will always be mad about how much brown-nosing matters.

Have you ever read the communist manifesto? Like you probably wouldn't say this if you had. Regardless of who Marx was or how bad his ideas were the manifesto itself is a seriously reasoned philosophical / academic document. This makes it very hard to take the rest of what you say seriously when you're making such fundamental mistakes.

The Ethereum Foundation's new insane mandate: "Reject temptations around flows of value" Thirty-eight pages of quasi-religious communist drivel that totally neglects users' needs, products & scaling Completely going back on the pivot! The EF is now anti-growth & anti-value: 🧵 Destroying any & all hope we might have had of returning to a sane roadmap: ETH is now fully committed to remaining uncompetitive forever Throwing pragmatism out of the window, ETH is instead taking an extreme left turn into weird, quasi-religious & cult-like thinking: Using their own language: ETH is adopting a "network spirituality" to tend the "infinite garden" until the day the world needs a "sanctuary" against tyranny... The practical result of such thinking will be excessive caution when it comes to scalability. Creating the necessary cultural backdrop for continued stagnation The quote we started this with makes this abundantly clear & the full context makes it even worse: "We reject temptations around flows of value, even when they are framed as reasonable rewards, or as necessary for alignment or self-perpetuation. We consider them antithetical to our mission and our legal constitution" Fees are vital to long-term security, decentralization & scarcity. They acknowledge this & are prepared to let ETH die over THEIR principles, & that is exactly what will happen. This also explains why there is a literal "Seppuku Licence" in the mandate, making ETH "fall on its own sword" These principles are forever too, like a proper cult, it is perfect now & can never be changed as the supreme leader states: "Our Mandate is written for a thousand-year horizon ... we do not expect any material compromise within our lifetimes" This type of insane language is reminiscent of something between a religious cult & the Communist Manifesto. Only suited for niche & toxic internet communities. Not mass adoption & especially not for institutional adoption! As it comes across as incredibly unprofessional, unreasonable & dangerous. Severely hurting ETH's long-term prospects The EF is literally forcing its employees to sign the mandate, which includes a "source seppuku licence" pledging their "Ethereum alignment" or get fired! Unbelievable, weird & scary stuff It is clear that the cult leader is now fully back in charge, as the mandate also explicitly speaks out against stakeholder governance: "Security also means governance minimization; no social layer should override protocol guarantees lightly" That means the status quo continues & the decision-making in ETH remains a "GitHub Dictatorship", a form of governance totally inadequate to stuart in a cypherpunk future! To make this even clearer: ETH governance/decision-making is extremely centralized & particularly vulnerable to capture. Which is deeply hypocritical, especially for a community that claims to value freedom so highly A benign dictatorship can work sometimes, but the problem with all forms of dictatorship is that the leadership eventually changes & when it is bad, it gets very bad! That is exactly where we are today; the dysfunction within ETH's leadership is clear to all now. From the insane ideology, but more importantly, also from the results: Four years wasted on a mistake of a roadmap (L2 scaling), only for it to waste the next four years on another totally uncompetitive roadmap (ZK-EVM)! Unlike most of ETH's competitors. The owners of ETH have no say over this roadmap, as they cannot even vote with their stake. They can only vote with their feet, something I suggest everyone should do with great haste at this stage! Leave ETH! Adopt scalable & decentralized alternatives instead, such as SOL, NEAR, SUI & many more. There, we can actually build competitive products that will change the world for the better That is far more cypherpunk than anything ETH is doing now, which, as a reminder, pushed most of its users onto centralized L2's that can censor & steal all user funds without delay, while their ivory tower leadership virtue signalled their moral superiority The best cypherpunk alternatives are chains like SOL, NEAR, SUI & more, where performant, competitive, & world-changing applications on decentralized, censorship-resistant, & permissionless L1 rails can actually be built! Abandon the sinking ship that is ETH, for the sake of the very cypherpunk ideals they falsely claim to uphold ✊

Do you treasure your own freedom and the freedom of others so much that you're willing to die should you violate those principles? Even tho the wording of the clause is tongue in cheek; being willing to "die for it" is the appropriate level of gravitas that ideals of total freedom commands.

The thing about the anti-seppuku clause side is that it reveals a deeper set of conflicting preferences. There are two sets of principles at issue: 1) cypherpunk principles 2) "anti-suicide pact principles" To steelman, imagine there were a "Planck Seppuku License" instead and by signing you promised not change the Planck constant but if you did, you'd commit honor suicide. Barring scifi obfuscations, refusal to sign is not on the grounds of its terms, but could only be due to (2). The point of the license is to force the supremacy of (1) above all others (including (2)). So that by refusing to attest to (1) because of (2) implies a value hierarchy. And, if (1) is not at the top of your value hierarchy, you do not meet the value qualifications for participation in this organization. The infinite garden of Ethereum development can have any number of political organizations (ie, value hierarchy praxis). People are obstinately denying this from two sides: "Sol Envyists" insist it conduct BD; and "Inclusive Centralists" insist that if a center is neutral, it's no center at all. The Mandate is the EF's demonstration through force that it is not at the center of the graph. Both camps are in uproar over this but Dulce here is in the latter. How do we know this? Because the reason for their outrage is that they insist the EF's politics have higher stakes because it's the center. It's a circular argument that could be stepped out of easily if they weren't committed to a desire for the EF at the center of the graph. The fact that this owes to their friend group's enjoyed status and income privileges can be set aside for now. Let's grant them temporarily their claim to ethical motivations. As self-identified high-minded liberals, they insist that the only credible politics of the center must be "liberal toleration." Again, the EF's actions are a refutation by demonstration as they put on a mask intolerable to the tolerant (Milady). In all cases, liberal tolerance, like all closed-tribes, extends only as far as alignment with their values. "Everyone is welcome in our system so long as they support our system." Cypherpunks believe in a stronger sense of freedom without qualification. The Mandate will be reflected on and analyzed for the rest of Ethereum's history as the political masterstroke that singlehandedly saved the chain from all its greatest threats by elegantly solving the question of praxis through alignment of theory. So long as you hold principles (1) above all else, we can trust we work toward a common goal. If you hold a value set above (1), your values will preclude your participation. You are not trustworthy. And yet--our commitment to (1) invites your forthcoming fork against our values. Your "inclusive centralist" ideology will have its organization formed from EF exiles. And we support your parallel efforts. But not from within our vessel. This is decentralization. This was the counter-counterrevolution that saved the Ethereum Revolution, saved through rejection of compromise. We will not compromise our values. That is what the Sol Envyists demand to heed the whims of the present moment. They will not survive the coming period of thought/market/technological/* chaos. Clearness in your highest level principles is the only path forward that does not end in ruin. This is why both camps were so easily ejected in the same swift motion. I would encourage the Inclusive Centralists to reflect on this--why is it that the move which got your enemies, The BD-Chainers, out is the same one that removed you? You'll find it's no coincidence. You'll find the EF refused to compromise and in doing so the the EF saved Ethereum.

The new YouTube embed player replaces the "Play/Pause" button with a "Share" button so everyone accidentally clicks it and the UI team at Google can lie to their higher-ups about "Our new UI has increased share button engagement by 10,000,000%!". Fucking pathetic.

I’m sorry. Praying for u and for the success I know you will have. You’re right that this shit should be illegal. I knew it right from the beginning that AI would be an excuse to fire Americans and replace them - something they’ve wanted to do for a generation - this just provides cover.

Got my layoff letter today. only US-based employees were let go. They exclusively laid off US-based employees in every single affected team, not a single non-US employee was let go. At the company meeting, leadership explained that they did so to improve cashflow and optimise resources (aka we pay you fility Americans too much). This shit should be illegal. Also how do I restart life at 40?

please xi jinping liberate us from the strivers. please send chengdu j-20 stealth fighter to san francisco

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